D&D (2024) You Can Now Pre-order Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

Pre-orders for the upcoming setting book have gone live. Eberron: Forge of the Artificer comes out on August 19th. The book contains the new 2024/5 edition Artificer class with 5 subclasses, the Warforged species, a ton of backgrounds and feats, and 20 new monsters.

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Forge wonders in the world of Eberron, where magic meets marvelous inventions.

Play as the Artificer: the ultimate creative class. You’re not just an inventor or spellcaster. You're an innovator, a bold-hearted visionary, fusing together magic and technology to craft extraordinary creations.

Fuel your adventures with this rules expansion for Dungeons & Dragons:

• 4 revised Artificer subclasses and 1 new subclass: the Cartographer
• 5 revised species, 17 backgrounds, and 28 feats
• New spells, bastions, and magic items
• 3 distinct, genre-based campaign templates for building fantasy noir, political thriller, and pulp adventure campaigns in the world of Eberron
• Over 20 new monsters, each inspired by a campaign model

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[Nord Ronnoc]

Frodo who famously did live in a 1920 art nouveau setting. Ok but so to understand correctly - you actually have fighter in plate armor running around in your fantasy 1920 new york.

Here's stuff from one of the artists on Battlefield 1. So yes, there is heavy bulky plate armor like that around the 1920s. It's not used as much, but it's there. Also, Keith Baker has made blog posts detailing Eberron fashion, and how people could wear heavy armor that doesn't look like medieval armor. Plus, D&D's well known for having anachronisms

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Frodo who famously did live in a 1920 art nouveau setting. Ok but so to understand correctly - you actually have fighter in plate armor running around in your fantasy 1920 new york.

It makes a lot more sense than someone running round in plate armor in medieval Europe!

(It hadn’t been invented)

Most D&D armour comes from the land of completely made up, and therefore does not fit in any particular time period.

 

[Bolares]

Just to be clear, Eberron shouldn't have a monolithic style. Art nouveau fits with Sharn, but would fall flat in the eldeen reaches, shadow marches or the Talenta Plains. Eberron is a big world with different cultures ad art styles. All the art we've seen takes place in Sharn or has characters from Sharn in it. I doubt they are doing the whole setting in one art style.

 

[Remathilis]

Frodo who famously did live in a 1920 art nouveau setting. Ok but so to understand correctly - you actually have fighter in plate armor running around in your fantasy 1920 new york.

I have magic which also didn't exist at any period in human history.

"When consistency gets in the way of samurai gunslingers riding on dinosaurs, it's time for consistency to take a day off." - Barsoomcore

 

[Retros_x]

Here's stuff from one of the artists on Battlefield 1. So yes, there is heavy bulky plate armor like that around the 1920s. It's not used as much, but it's there. Also, Keith Baker has made blog posts detailing Eberron fashion, and how people could wear heavy armor that doesn't look like medieval armor. Plus, D&D's well known for having anachronisms

I have magic which also didn't exist at any period in human history.

"When consistency gets in the way of samurai gunslingers riding on dinosaurs, it's time for consistency to take a day off." - Barsoomcore

If you both follow the discussion upthread you will see that I am 100% with you. I love the mix of aesthethics and styles in Eberron and damn right in my Sharn people run with chain/plate and swords/javelins while solving noir crimes.

Most D&D armour comes from the land of completely made up, and therefore does not fit in any particular time period.

I thought you dislike armor in the setting of Eberron, because you claimed it is fantasy-1920 with no other influences, thats why I was following this line of questions, but I might've misunderstand you.

It makes a lot more sense than someone running round in plate armor in medieval Europe!

(It hadn’t been invented)

To my knowledge it was created in medieval Europe. In the late middle ages, which makes it definitely more fitting to see someone running around than in a 1920 "realistic" setting. Good thing Eberron is neither realistic nor purely 1920.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I thought you dislike armor in the setting of Eberron, because you claimed it is fantasy-1920 with no other influences, thats why I was following this line of questions, but I might've misunderstand you

Nope, I (and my players) like 1920s stylings but we don’t have any issues with armor or other standard rules. Topping them off with a trenchcoat, fedora or leather jacket is just for fun.

 

[Nord Ronnoc]

Nope, I (and my players) like 1920s stylings but we don’t have any issues with armor or other standard rules. Topping them off with a trenchcoat, fedora or leather jacket is just for fun.

I have a player, who's a warforged artificer, in my Eberron game who wears a leather longcoat over a suit of half-plate.

 

[Valetudo]

I've always looked at eberron as dnds take on a final fantasy style campaign.

 

[Nord Ronnoc]

I've always looked at eberron as dnds take on a final fantasy style campaign.

Probably 6, 9, and 12, though.

 

[Valetudo]

Actually final fantasy has had tech in it from the beginning. Shoot the black mage from 9 is very similar to a warforged.